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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 940 · 40 questions
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Artist's tip (Go round the circle): Order: red, red-orange, orange, yellow-orange, yellow, yellow-green, green, blue-green, blue, blue-purple, purple, red-purple. Primary: red, yellow, blue. Secondary: orange, green, purple. Tertiary: the six two-word colours. Neighbours on the wheel are called analogous colours; black, white, grey and brown are neutrals and are not on the wheel.

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  1. 1.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) blue (c) yellow (d) red
  7. 7.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  8. 8.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  9. 9.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  10. 10.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) red (c) orange (d) blue-green
  11. 11.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) red-purple (b) orange (c) purple (d) yellow-green
  12. 12.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) blue
  15. 15.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) purple (d) yellow-green
  16. 16.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) blue-green (b) blue (c) red-purple (d) orange
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) red (c) orange (d) blue-purple
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  21. 21.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) red (d) green
  23. 23.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) analogous colours (c) complementary colours (d) primary colours
  24. 24.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  27. 27.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) two tertiaries (c) black and white (d) a primary + a secondary
  28. 28.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) yellow (c) orange (d) red-purple
  29. 29.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) blue (c) orange (d) purple
  31. 31.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) red-orange
  33. 33.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) blue-purple (b) blue-green (c) yellow-green (d) yellow-orange
  34. 34.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) red (d) purple
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) yellow (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) green
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  37. 37.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow (b) blue-purple (c) blue-green (d) red
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) yellow-green (c) purple (d) yellow-orange

Answer key

  1. True
  2. False
  3. False
  4. True
  5. secondary colour
  6. orange
  7. 6
  8. 12
  9. green
  10. grey
  11. orange
  12. True
  13. False
  14. blue
  15. yellow-green
  16. red-purple
  17. True
  18. False
  19. red
  20. tertiary colour
  21. True
  22. red
  23. analogous colours
  24. True
  25. secondary colour
  26. primary colour
  27. a primary + a secondary
  28. red-purple
  29. False
  30. orange
  31. 6
  32. red-orange
  33. yellow-orange
  34. purple
  35. yellow-green
  36. secondary colour
  37. yellow
  38. True
  39. False
  40. purple

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